Sentence examples for past litigation from inspiring English sources
If completed, the deal would merge two of the biggest American producers of coal -- and potentially help Massey finally move past litigation over several prominent disasters in recent years.
Olson, whose previous legal work includes suing the U.S. Department of Energy over its permitting of power plants, hopes that the cases will lead to more comprehensive action on climate change a strategy that, in some ways, echoes past litigation campaigns against the tobacco and asbestos industries.
To cut compensation to these victims, the court said that it would ignore Garlock's past litigation record or the prior judgment of judges as guidance, suggesting that victims and their attorneys had tricked them all.
By 2004, the stock value of Philip Morris/Altria completely recovered from losses incurred as a result of past litigation and stockholder distrust.
"This is an attempt to get past the litigation," Mr. Brodsky said.
"What we have done here is move past the litigation process and advanced directly to a collaborative process, to insure that stops on Chicago streets meet constitutional and legal standards".
That may seem steep, especially for a beleaguered company like RIM, but it is actually in line with the payment structure Nokia has extracted from companies who settled past patent litigation with broad licensing agreements, including Apple.
Sue Ross, an Easton Hospital spokeswoman, said the hospital would not comment on any past or potential litigation.
In the past 30 years, litigation has become more complex and the workload has grown.
Ms. Godoff made it plain that Mr. Geffen's past use of litigation was never far from the minds of executives at Random House.
Axel Ganz, the president of the international unit of Gruner & Jahr, which operates the French and American companies, has said that he was glad the company was finally getting past the embarrassing litigation in Manhattan over Rosie magazine, but a legal case is brewing on the other side of the Atlantic, and this time the hot seat may belong to him.
